Metadata Management and Lineage
Scanning a warehouse produces a complete catalog of names and types that answers almost none of the questions people actually arrive with.
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Separating Storage, Compute, and Metadata
Splitting a warehouse replaces one product with five choices. See what object storage cannot do, how a table format fills the gap, and what copies cost.
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Catalog Coverage
The share of in-scope data assets whose catalog entries carry required metadata, how to choose the denominator, and what a high number cannot show.
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Metadata and Lineage for Change Impact Analysis
See how run metadata, column-level lineage, coverage measurement, and consumer discovery turn “who uses this column?” into a candidate list you can validate.
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Open Table Formats: Snapshots and Catalogs
A table format decides which files are the table, commits changes atomically, and lets readers keep a consistent snapshot. See how the mechanisms and their limits work.
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Data Catalog
Learn how a data catalog uses metadata to help people discover and assess datasets without granting access.